Consider this hypothetical situation that may not be so hypothetical: you are allowed to proceed from death into the second birth, only to come face to face with those who you have prematurely removed from the earth (including, any ones that might have been removed at a time when they were able to become viable living souls, except for the intervention of abortion). In such a situation; what crosses your mind? Do you start in with some sort of apology? No, this is not appropriate because; at that time, they do not have malleable feelings. At that time, they are in the state that is described here.
The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him, Saying, Master, Moses said, If a man die, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.
Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother: Likewise the second also, and the third, unto the seventh. And last of all the woman died also. Therefore in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.
Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
(Matthew 22:23-30)
At that time, the ones you see are as the angels of God in heaven. Now, if this was an earthly situation, there would probably be some length of awkward silence. In an earthly situation, one would hope that the offended one would be the first one to speak. It might be desired, as toward the cause of this man’s death; that, they have the kind of attitude that was in Jesus, here.
– Explore Collateral Damage and the Heart of God: Part Five –
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